ELA+Kindergarten+Lesson+30

Topic: School's Over

Common Core Standards

RL.K.1-- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in text. RL.K.3-- With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. RL.K.6-- With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story. RF.K.Ia-- Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. RF.K.3b-- Associate the long and short sounds with common (graphemes) for the five major vowels. RF.K.3c-- Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). RF.K.4-- Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. W.K.1-- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to rompose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the hook they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about (hi topi" or hook (e.g. My favorite book is. ...) W.K.5-- With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed. SL.K.6-- Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. L.K.Ia-- Print many upper- and lowercase letters. L.K.2b-- Recognize and name end punctuation. L.K.2d-- Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound- letter relationships.

Suggested Student Objectives
 * Listen for how a story is read with expression
 * Review words with /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/
 * Write the letters As, Ee, Li, Oo
 * Review the unit's high -frequency words: do, down, have, help, look, out, off, take
 * Understand prepositions: in, on, up, and out
 * Read with expression
 * Read decodable text
 * Understand characters
 * Identify environmental print

Suggested Additional Readings

The Last Day of Kindergarten by Nancy Loewen First Grade Stinks! by Mary Ann Rodman Over the Meadow by Ezra Jack Keats Hi, Cat! by Ezra Jack Keats Bigmama's by Donald Crews Pictures From Our Vacation by Lynne Rae Perkins.

Resource Links BrainPopJr: Short Vowels BrainPopJr: Long A BrainPopJr: Silent E BrainPopJr: Summer TumbleBooks: The Summer the Town Bit Back BookFlix: Come On, Rain!

Activities 1. End of School Memory Book __Materials__ __Description:__
 * Pencils
 * Crayons
 * Memory Book: [[file:MemoryBook.pdf]]
 * Teacher will select appropriate pages
 * Students will complete pages of their memory book and ask their classmates to sign the autograph pages

2. Dig into Vowels Centers __Materials__ __Description:__
 * Pencil
 * Sorting Cards/ Worksheet: [[file:WeDigVowelSounds.pdf]]
 * Teacher will prepare sorting cards and copy worksheet
 * Students will place sorting mats in front of them, then determine whether each picture card has along vowel sound or short vowel sound.
 * Once all the cards are sorted students should write all words under the correct the vowel heading on their worksheet

Assessments 1. Students will be able to identify and sort vowel sounds 2. Students will be complete their memory book with details about themselves and from the school year

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